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Ailing Fox. Such a victory, moreover, would have serious repercussions for the monarchy. At 78, ex-Premier George Papandreou is becoming aware that life itself is ephemeral. In the past year, "the Old Fox" has become frail and ail ing, and control of the party is passing day by day into the hands of his ambitious 47-year-old son Andreas, who harangues the voters on the need for "redistribution of income to the poorer classes" and "a dash of socialism." Papandreou the elder had his differences with King Constantine, but he nonetheless favored the monarchy as an institution, arguing...
...though sing she did, and her burnished voice never sounded better. At the top of their form, too, were Basso Justino Diaz as Antony and Tenor Thomas as Caesar. Composer Barber's setting for Shakespeare's text was notable chiefly for an orchestration built of conflict ing clouds of moody, often eerie thun-derbursts of sound, punctuated with enough jutting exclamations of dissonance to label it contemporary, and Conductor Thomas Schippers gave it all the fierce sweep of a Force Three hurricane. Yet it was only in the latter part of the second act and in the third...
...eminent piano has been the Steinway, which at its best has a soar ing, singing tone and a delicately responsive action...
...company should be able to absorb the immense cost of technical innovation that inhibits many promising new building ideas. "We have been a supplier of products for houses," ex plains George T. Bogard, head of G.E.'s recently created Community Systems Development Division. "Now we're try ing to become a supplier of a whole new system of building...
Died. Malvina Hoffman, 79, long America's foremost woman sculptor, a Rodin student whose deft-but-not-dar ing work used to be so popular that she was able to choose from a stream of lucrative commissions, most notably in 1930 when Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History asked her to portray all the races of mankind, a project that sent her around the world posing ethnic types from Senegal to the Solomons and resulted in 101 true-to-life bronze figures; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...